why cant i use mass storagee on my ps3 or linux box

why cant i use mass storagee on my ps3 or linux box, question as title really, brought device yesterday an seems sony left out a simple yet very usefull feature, huge internal memory yet useless as i can't access it, no bluetooth etc just cable, any help would be greatly appreciatted (linux box is on slackware if that helps)

Re: why cant i use mass storagee on my ps3 or linux box

if you have ubuntu/debian linux you need to Install the mtpfs and mtp-tools packages - not sure what are the names of those in other distos.

After i install them the phone should be able to automount when plugged in (tested). Alternatively just install some kind of ftp server for your phone and transfer files over wifi - that the preferred method for me today - just bookmark ftp server in your file explorer for ease of use.

Re: why cant i use mass storagee on my ps3 or linux box

That does not work, unfortunately. The phone is detected (with or without those software) as "SEMC HUSB Device" in Ubuntus file manager, but when you try to copy files to/from the device you get the message "Error getting file: -6: Not Supported".